..... . ì ; ":':": @læ '>>.' . : ,:w , . , g " : , :tT , , , ::' : :' ,.. , " "'10.. % iIII : " ,2 - j I " :: '" :: :.. :.:.__: .l? .:- 5"" ; 30' husky, and genial, that he was born of Russian-] ewish stock in a Rutgers Street tenement nine-and-twenty years ago, that he is married and has two daughters. Also that, though now a magnate in a modest way, he per- versely continues in the dramatic de- partment of the Tunes) where he is one of the two reporters who assist the aforesai.d Mr. Kaufman in assembling and editing the news of the theatre. It is the point of both "The Front Page" and "Gentlemen of the Press" that a newspaperman sticks to his last with much the same helpless reluctance with which a fly sticks to flypaper. I'\nd unless it be the ever baffling spectacle of George Kaufman continuing at his old job on the Times long after he has become a vastly successful playwright, there is no more interesting instance of this phenomenon than that afforded by the sight of the subject of this reverent monograph, when, between reading proof on his Guide and despatching a dozen of his boys on their rounds, he finds time somehow to gather fascinat- ing facts about the drama for Mr. Ochs. Thus recently, at the pretty wedding of . . "Do you know what would happen if tlte tariff was changed?" " < . " ..::}' '" '.' ' ß ' -<< 'j" ./ >'4< ..,,:,-ii' =;:" (') r / ; 1:;:;: " If." ," .' .,:' ',,'.. ".' { ;' l.l' > ::: :t';;:'::, \ ,.. '. '>j;';' reF, ,\ 4 ,.. f'\, iF:;:" r::'{ ,',' .' ;"",: '1 "::,;,, '. (;,. -- ","":i:'J ' ".,,\ ! .v ':>) "F":',:,','.,' . 01 "'1 :;: ' $,: l ::;wf ..' ":( . J;,../ t 1 . ::0;:::, ;_.... :-:;;:: J! . ) ::=.':: "'. :.:::::::t <.... {4::.... ...:;. . ':, .. Charles Macr\rthur and Helen Hayes, the first of the thirty uninvited guests to arrive at Judge Oberwager's bower was none other than Samuel Zolotow, Esq., wearing a simple business suit of unobtrusive gray, plus a determined expression which suggested that, with- out his sanctioning presence, the Inar- riage would hardly be legal. -ALEXANDER ,,V OOLLCOTT . . OF ALL THINGS ACCORDING to the federal estI- mates, Manhattan has lost 193,000 residents in the last three years. At this rate it wil.l be an uninhabited island in 1954 and a good place to take ten books. . A Republican national committee- man in Alabama has distributed two , t "'l........ :..;;": - j hI /1 . j (" t .# l " :=-; ./ "1 ",:": : L : , , ::.. . f" ( :.:: "" .j ( ft1J OCTOßER 1,), 19 18 hundred thousand pamphlets about the Papishness of .L-\l Smith. His incred- ible name is Oliver Street. . There is also Hoover's attack upon :Vlrs. "VVillie \V. Caldwell for her "Romanized and rum-ridden" letter. It would have been kinder to turn her over to a snub-committee. . Mrs. Willebrandt is now commonly referred to as the "stormy petrel." An even happier appellation would be "1. 1 " oarnstormy petre . . A Lexington Avenue man was ar- rested for persistently calling up the wrong number and asking for Mildred. Unfortunately his sentence was sus- pended and he is free to go on wIth his hellish work. . The President's letter to the Massa- chusetts convention showed more con- trol than speed. Try this over on your insomnia: "Cal Coolidge's cool eulogy of Hoover." . \ We sometimes have a faint suspicion th1.t America is composed of people who love, honor, and admire Herbert Hoover but do not like him very much. . "VVe have received our copy of the j\.ntl-Saloon League pamphlet prov- ing that a vote for Al Slnith is a vote against prohibition. All doubts are now dissipated. . Moscow is shocked by the revelation that a manufacturer is still stamping the Czar's face upon cakes of soap. This should stop the whispering campaign that the Russians never heard of soap. . Agitators are now aying that sub- way and elevated cars should be heated in accordance with the thermometer rather than the calendar. A passen- ger, they say, is as cold as he feels. . The autogiro or flying windmill may come on a visit to America Our newest lifelong ambition is to see Grover Wh1.len shaking hands with the thing. -HOVlARD BRUBAKER